His Name Is Bob Blog

Hi Everyone, we are back in the editing room, cutting and slicing.  The 1st Chapter is almost ready to export and hand over to the sound engineer.  Very exciting!

The new system is up and running.  We did end up loosing some audio files, shame they where very good and part of the final edit.  We are starting to edit again this Sunday.  Weeee are back!

Hi everyone.  After two months of IT issues and programming errors and data recovery, totaling about 30 recovery attempts and 100 hrs of work.  We finally were able to recover a good copy of the film edit.  We only ended up loosing about 1 week of work.  It has been hard to believe but we just wouldn’t let anyone tell us that it was lost for good.  So we just kept working with different IT people and ideas until we found one that worked.  This has been a Hugh relief for everyone involved. 

Hi everyone, we have had a catastrophic data loss on the editing system.  Complete hard drive failure!  This is a gigantic set back for us and very upsetting.  We had the rough cut down to 2:53 and were very excited about getting it down to about 2:15.  If this data can be recovered aka the Backup files it is a three to four month delay.  If they can’t recover the data it could take up to 6 months to re-do the work and many files would be completely lost.  The data recovery will cost $1700, Ouch!!

Hi Everyone!  We have been working hard in our spare time which isn’t as much as we would like but progress is happening.  He had the rough cut finished at 3:25 and have cut it down to 2:53.  Our plan is to get it down, as close to 2hrs as we can.  As you can see Bob’s story is very complicated and vastly interesting.  It has been difficult make it shorter.

We have been working hard to get the rough cut for this film finished.  We are presently on the 9th Chapter, so we have 1.5 Chapters to finish the rough cut. 

We are almost finished with the Business Plan which includes all the investor information.  If you would like a copy please contact Sebastian at 214 762 1669

Very exciting news! We may have found someone who might Executive Produce
along with us. We are talking with a friend of mine who is Executive
Director of the Mind Science Foundation in San Antonio and the former Texas
Film Commissioner.

His name is Joseph Dial.

He is going to help us find funding to finish the film, but also, he has a
contact with a world-renowned medical doctor who can help us with our
chapter “Medical Opinion.”

Needless to say, we’re very excited. We’ll keep you posted on the progress.

Have a Great Day!

Lisa Johnson

How’s it going everyone? We are now working on the roughcut for Chapter 8 “Lack of a “Normal Life””

Monday, Sept. 3

Another magical day. Once again, Bob is up and showered and dressed and ready to go before anyone else. He was sitting at the dining room table, chatting with my mom when I woke up. Probably around 8:30. We had breakfast and packed up the car once again, to eventually head back to Dallas.
I was very impressed with Bob’s healthy breakfast. He had coffee; a bowl of melon; two fried eggs; toast; and some scrambled eggs. Wow!
We left the house and made our way to the nursing home where my 87-year-old grandfather named Mike lives. We surprised him with a visit.
And what was in the lobby but a piano! Perfect for Bob. He sat down and was immediately in the musical groove. He played beautifully and drew a crowd. Mike loved it and said over and over again that it was “soothing.”
Then Mike asked that Bob go get his keyboard and walk down the hall playing so that the other residents could hear. So we ended up in a procession of sorts, with Bob at the lead, my mother pushing Mike in his wheelchair and me and Lisa in the rear. People stopped and smiled, listening to Bob play “You Are My Sunshine.”
We stopped in another sitting area, where Bob played for some more residents. There were requests, including Christmas music and some patriotic pieces, both of which Bob played.
This experience brought joy to many people and tears to my eyes more than once. I guess it was the innocence and overall good of Bob. He was spreading cheer and good feelings. Like the Pied Piper of faith and love.
We pulled out of Santa Fe for the 700-mile drive back to Dallas at about 11:30. Didn’t get to Dallas until about 12 hours later.
We ended up with at least four more hours of footage and a few rolls of 8 mm film shot. It’s all digitized and awaiting our little eyes and a place on the timeline. We are going to do some marathon editing this weekend.
We will finish this amazing story soon! Stay tuned!